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The Vulture choose

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[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 45: Them spic mothuhs gon’ tear him a bran’ new one.
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 111: Okay, amigo, I give up.
at amigo, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 10: If he ketch you, yo’ ass iz grass.
at one’s ass is grass under ass, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 119: I knew the Beast when I saw him, though [...] The Beast was dope.
at beast, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 111: We managed to have a tree and a big Christmas dinner and the whole family bit.
at bit, n.1
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 111: All the P.R. and blood women had been running up and down [...] and traipsing off with bundles of shit.
at blood, adj.2
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 88: John carried Red Birds, Yellow Jackets, Purple Hearts, and Blue Heavens in quantity.
at blue heaven (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 29: By eleven o’clock John’s party had turned into a downhome ‘sweat box’.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 76: We all [...] made sure that we didn’t get bunted by a lot of goofs and old head dealers. [Ibid.] 80: How you know Seedy been buntin’ my boys?
at bunt, v.2
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 31: I heard about one narrow escape he made from the Man because Junior Jones burned up the patrol car.
at burn (up), v.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 41: Tellin’ her to come over an’ watch us smoke some a that mean bush you got.
at bush, n.1
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) x: That read like [...] a bit of C.H.A. by the Dean. (In traditional institutions when someone makes a request for extraordinary consideration the person responsible for approval likes to ‘cover his ass.’).
at c.y.a., phr.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 114: They had already popped three ‘cats’ apiece [...] The only thing about ‘cats’ that I had ever heard was that they were ‘downs’.
at cats, n.1
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 91: I didn’t care about controlling the Juniors, because they didn’t really hold a lot of check.
at check, n.2
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 80: I’ll have some smoke tomorra. Cheebo an’ Panama Red.
at cheeb, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 24: Her nicely built chocolate frame rubbed a part of me that I like to have rubbed.
at chocolate, adj.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 14: Aunt Agnes [...] she’s a cold pain in the ass.
at cold, adj.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 12: Along with Colombian Gold, Acapulco, and the powerful Black smoke from Vietnam, it [i.e. Panamanian Red] is very hard to come by.
at Colombian, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 95: If a man puts a contract on another man, he really signs one on the whole community.
at contract, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 79: A young cat will blow your cool when the Man applies the heat.
at blow someone’s cool (v.) under cool, n.2
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 104: I’m going to be the man, and I don’t want nobody to think that the man is a cootie-loo.
at cootie-loo, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 27: All it [i.e. good manners] really turns out to be iz coppin’ out on yo’ manhood.
at cop out, v.2
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 13: I donno if I’d cut them niggers loose in my crib [...] You know they gon’ wanna be high.
at cut loose, v.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 36: He wanted it [i.e. success] badly enough to take the chance of being dimed on by some punk who would never reveal himself.
at dime on, v.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 53: I cursed my ego as I realized how I had done myself.
at do oneself (v.) under do, v.1
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 89: I figured it [i.e. hippie philosophizing] was a lot of bullshit and another excuse [...] to get down without getting married.
at get down, v.2
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 12: ‘You int’rested in some good Red?’ he asked. ‘Can a fish dig water?’.
at can a duck swim? under duck, n.1
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 10: Yeah, man [...] thass a good pile a dus’ you makin’.
at dust, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 10: yeah man! zinari iz aw ri’; no trubble at all. less you try in mess wit’ his dus’.
at dust, n.
[US] G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 8: Smoky [...] asked me how I would like to make some easy money. I said I’d like it fine.
at fine, adv.
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